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I have been importing my data using a csv file, which works without problems. I have then been able to make pie charts to display my data, still working in the delimited text layer, using Diagrams in the Layer Properties. But since the attributes table of a delimited text layer cannot be modified, I saved the layer as a shapefile. However, this introduced an extra set of markers that I could not get rid of: red crosses appear at the coordinates of each point and they did not want to go away. This also happened when I imported my data using the GeoCSV plugin. I have found a workaround to avoid getting red crosses: if I save the delimited text layer as a shapefile pretty much directly after importing it, at least before activating Diagrams, the red crosses do not appear after saving the layer as a shapefile. So it seems that this bug is related to having a √ in the Show Diagrams checkbox. Unchecking this box in the delimited text layer before saving as a shapefile also works to avoid getting the crosses, but then all the information about the assigned attributes (names, colours) and all other properties (size, placement) is lost, so it basically means that I have to do the work all over again after conversion.